Secure, fast messaging across apps

Now you can enrich security operations and connect security solutions into an effective team. The Data Exchange Layer (DXL) communication fabric connects and optimizes security actions across multiple vendor products, as well as internally developed and open source solutions. Enterprises gain secure, real-time access to new data and lightweight, instant interactions with other products. New integration with Cisco pxGrid extends your reach end-to-end with better identity services and automated threat mitigation.

OpenDXL: An open standard and ecosystem

Enabling more applications to run across the DXL fabric, the OpenDXL open source project helps developers and enterprises freely leverage DXL. The OpenDXL community and resources at OpenDXL.com empower DXL integrations, provide a catalog for available apps, support implementations, and nurture new ideas.

OpenDXL Idea Book

Change your security dynamics

Shorten threat mitigation workflows

Rapid sharing of information and orchestration of tasks shrink the time to detect, contain, and correct newly identified threats. Integration with Cisco pxGrid adds visibility, apps, and data from a second vendor ecosystem.

Reduce integration complexity

A new set of deployment, development, and configuration tools helps you get actively integrating in just five minutes and simplifies defining policies and services across fabrics.

Increase the value of your applications

Applications throughout your infrastructure can now share the timely threat data they generate and work together to take action immediately. Messages can trigger automated responses from McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator to update, clean, quarantine, and more.

Get Started

With DXL 4.0, it is easy to define, configure, invoke, and monitor integrated services, including a bridge between DXL and Cisco pxGrid. These updates extend the value of the DXL design: location unaware, persistent connections, and service- and event-based communications

How it works

Develop once

The DXL application framework increases integration flexibility and simplicity. Unlike typical integrations, each application connects to the universal DXL communication fabric with just one integration process. Applications can attach and communicate over a universal orchestration layer. One app publishes a message or calls a service; one or more apps consume the message or respond to the service request. As is the goal for any standard, the interaction is independent of the underlying proprietary architecture. Integrations are much simpler because of this abstraction from vendor-specific APIs and requirements. A new Docker container can package all the capabilities required to create and test a service within a single image for easy development.

Wrap once

A bootstrap utility makes it easy to wrap and distribute services built around an existing API. It provides a template and generates files to enable standardized distributions as Python packages or Docker containers. This model helps you extend your own or a commercial product, to publish data onto DXL. For a more sophisticated app, these sorts of actions can be scripted together to drive a waterfall or simultaneous set of actions—an orchestrated response with or without human involvement.

Deploy once

Deploy a standardized integration and communication layer over your existing network with a small DXL client and broker that manages message exchanges. All DXL traffic is contained within your network, offering data privacy and operational control. A firewall-friendly model maintains a connection between client and server for continuous access to the latest information flowing over the DXL. If something in the publishing or receiving application changes, the DXL abstraction layer insulates the rest of the deployment from the change, reducing risk and costs of integration maintenance.